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PRETI, Mattia
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1699
Italian painter and draughtsman. Although he was trained and had his first success as a painter in Rome during the 1630s and 1640s, he is traditionally associated with the Neapolitan school. It was in Naples between 1653 and 1660 that he made his most lasting mark (see fig. 1), contributing to the evolution of the exuberant late Baroque style and providing an important source of inspiration to later generations of painters, notably to Francesco Solimena. From 1661 he was based in Malta, where his most substantial undertaking was the decoration of St John's, Valletta. Preti's mature style is intensely dramatic and unites a Caravaggesque realism and expressive chiaroscuro with the grandeur and theatricality of Venetian High Renaissance painting.
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Painting ID:: 8671
The Raising of Lazarus hfy
1650s
Oil on canvas, 202 x 260 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
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Painting ID:: 8672
Pilate Washing his Hands af
1663
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Painting ID:: 8673
Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist af
Oil on canvas
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota
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Painting ID:: 8674
St Sebastian s
c. 1660
Oil on canvas
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
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Painting ID:: 8675
Sophonisba Receiving the Goblet af
c. 1670
Oil on canvas, 198 x 174 cm
Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
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PRETI, Mattia
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1699
Italian painter and draughtsman. Although he was trained and had his first success as a painter in Rome during the 1630s and 1640s, he is traditionally associated with the Neapolitan school. It was in Naples between 1653 and 1660 that he made his most lasting mark (see fig. 1), contributing to the evolution of the exuberant late Baroque style and providing an important source of inspiration to later generations of painters, notably to Francesco Solimena. From 1661 he was based in Malta, where his most substantial undertaking was the decoration of St John's, Valletta. Preti's mature style is intensely dramatic and unites a Caravaggesque realism and expressive chiaroscuro with the grandeur and theatricality of Venetian High Renaissance painting.
. Related Artists to PRETI, Mattia: | Anton Ritter von Stadler | Antoine Chintreuil | Richard Jennys | John Collier | Garneray Ambroise |
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